David Tang Quotes

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

Even people who aren't pleasant to deal with - it's often because they're unhappy, and something's still not resolved for them.

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.

I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions.

I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.

You just go through highs and lows as an individual payer and as a team.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.